WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – Fielding woes and a red-hot Charleston squad proved a lethal combination for the West Liberty University baseball team on Monday as WLU dropped both ends of a Mountain East Conference doubleheader at sunny but cold Kovalick Field.
    Coach Eric Burkle's Hilltoppers (4-20, 3-9) were charged with 11 errors on the day as the MEC South Division-leading Golden Eagles (17-10, 10-2) prevailed by scores of 12-2 and 7-4 to push their winning streak to six games.
    In the opener, Charleston took advantage of four West Liberty errors to plate multiple runs in each of the first four innings and the hosts couldn't fight their way back into contention.
    The Hilltoppers managed just six hits off UC starter Jacob Kaiser, who struck out four and didn't walk a batter in the complete-game win. Tyler Ramsay's RBI single in the second and Coby Eckstein's run-scoring double in the third accounted for the hosts' two runs.
    West Liberty was charged with seven errors in the second game and six of Charleston's seven runs went into the books as unearned.
    The Hilltoppers didn't go down without a fight. Trailing 7-0 in the bottom of the fifth, Coby Eckstein launched his second home run in as many days – a two-run, two-out blast over the left field wall – to put the Black and Gold on the board. The Hilltoppers added two more tallies in the bottom of the sixth but it was too little, too late.
    Eckstein drove in two runs with a single and his home run while Eric Banal had a pair of singles and an RBI. Chad Matthus also had a two-hit game and Ramsay doubled in a losing cause.
    West Liberty steps out of conference play on Wednesday for a 3 p.m. game against Seton Hill (Pa.) in Greensburg.